The UK’s tallest bird towers at an impressive 1.2 meters. Known as the common crane, Grus grus, their numbers have benefited ...

Irrawaddy dolphins are rapidly disappearing across Asia. Scientists warn that fishing nets, pollution and habitat loss are ...

As the Arctic warms and sea ice disappears, polar bears are being pushed into conditions they have never faced before. Their ...

For a long time, the prevailing theory was that dinosaurs were already in decline before the Chicxulub asteroid struck Earth ...

For every bird that becomes a pampered internet star, countless others are snatched from the wild to feed the illegal global ...

The millions of species humans share the world with are valuable in their own right. When one species is lost, it has a ...

A spectacular fossil trove on the Arctic island of Spitsbergen shows that marine life made a stunning comeback after Earth’s ...

Most closely related to dugongs, it was discovered in 1741 by biologist Georg Wilhelm Steller, after the expedition to North ...

The tragic news of the loss of the world's last remaining northern white rhino begs the question: Can it be brought back?